The metallurgy of Roman silver coinage : from the reform of Nero to the reform of Trajan /

Main Author: Butcher, Kevin
Other Authors: Ponting, Matthew, Evans, Jane (Geochemist), Pashley, Vanessa
Format: Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. General Introduction
  • Roman silver coinage and monetary history
  • Roman silver coins and monetary stability
  • A science on the margins of numismatics : the history of metrological and metallurgical studies
  • Metrology and hoard analysis
  • The issues of "fineness," of instrumental analysis, and of data quality
  • Metallography and the production of denarius blanks
  • The material sampled
  • Part II. The Denarius
  • The Julio-Claudian background
  • The reforms of Nero, AD 64-68
  • The Civil Wars, AD 68-69 : Rome
  • The Western denarii of the Civil Wars
  • From Vespasian to the reform of Domitian, AD 69-82
  • The reforms of Domitian
  • From Nerva to the reform of Trajan, AD 96-99
  • The denarius : summary and conclusions
  • Part III. Provincial Silver Coinages
  • Cistophori of Asia
  • Other provincial silver of Asia Minor
  • Caesarea in Cappadocia
  • Syria
  • Egypt
  • Provincial silver coinages : summary and conclusions
  • Summary of conclusions